College of Arts and Humanities Middle Eastern Studies Program Presents:
Dr. Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Date: Friday March 13, 2009
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
Place: Education Building 172
Relaxed Parking in Lot C
Hamid Dabashi is an Iranian-American intellectual historian, cultural critic and literary theorist who has made important contributions to the study of Iran, world cinema and Shi'Islam from a post colonial perspective. He is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City, the oldest and most prestigious Chair in Iranian Studies. He is the author of nineteen books. Among them are his Authority in Islam; Theology of Discontent; Truth and Narrative; Close Up: Iranian Cinema; Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran; an edited volume, Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema; and his one-volume analysis of Iranian history.
Friday, March 6, 2009
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